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YCDS Goes Off-Script, Produces Witty and Tragic Original Play: a Review of I’Ll Be Right Here APRIL 18, 2016 TheHow to be an accountant OMMENTATORKey Career Guidance For Volume LXXXI CThe Independent Student Newspaper of Yeshiva College, Sy Syms School of Business, and Yeshiva University • www.yucommentator.org Issue 9 YCDS Goes Off-Script, Produces Witty and Tragic Original Play: A Review Of I’ll Be Right Here By Tzvi Levitin For the first time in its history, the Yeshiva College Dramatics Society presents a play entirely written, scored, and, of course, produced, by Yeshiva Univer- sity students. I’ll Be Right Here: A Modern Political Tragedy, written by Yeshiva College junior Etai Shu- chatowitz, explores the tragic downfall of a charming and promising presidential hopeful, and poses impor- tant questions about friendship, loyalty, and glory. The play opens with chief of staff Thomas Greene (Yadin Teitz) reeling from the shocking death of Sena- tor David Peters (Matis Axel) and being interviewed by a police officer (David Cutler) investigating Peters’ presumed suicide. We learn that Peters had been a well-liked politician until scandal brought his cam- paign to a screeching halt. Through alternating (and often conflicting) memories of Greene and entries in Peters’ diary, we are quickly thrust into a series of flashbacks to Peters’ fall from grace, a dramatic and nuanced plot involving bribery, fabricated evidence, and even a drunken night spent with prostitutes. Perhaps the greatest strength of the script is its deft creation of tangible and highly intriguing characters. From the very first scene, Shuchatowitz hits the ground running, pulling the audience through a labyrinth of time and space, shaping his characters through their Yeshiva College Dramatics Society performs "I'll Be Right Here." From left: Judah Gavant, SEE PLAY, CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 Yadin Teitz, Matis Axel, Binyamin Bixon, Gavriel Guttman, and David Cutler. IBC Adds New Opportunities for Students By Eitan Lipsky part information to their students. They build relationships with the talmidim,” said Rabbi Kalinsky. In order to meet this goal, for the past several years IBC has As the semester begins to come to a close, many people will start turning their offered a Freshman Seminar for students starting off their college careers, bring- attention towards next Fall. For students in IBC, they will notice several new de- ing students of all different backgrounds into one classroom. The seminar has velopments that will enhance their program in the upcoming year. recently been taught by Rabbi Beny Rofeh, who creates a class environment that What sets IBC apart from the other morning programs is its diverse student is more open and engaging for students to have discussions about many impor- body. Students join IBC for a plethora of reasons, and as such, the student body tant topics. This course is specifically designed to be less demanding in terms of has many different needs to be filled by the course offerings and programming. coursework so that students can gain maximally from their time in class and their In order to accommodate the needs of its students, IBC offers a wide range of discussions. Rabbi Rofeh has also made a point of giving his students exposure course offerings in Tanach, Jewish History, Jewish philosophy, Talmud, Halacha to new personalities, frequently bringing in other IBC staff members, staff from and other classical Jewish texts, and encourages its students to choose courses BMP and YP, and other YU personalities such as President Richard Joel and Dean that most appeal to their interests and abilities. of Students Chaim Nissel to speak to the students. IBC also places an emphasis on having courses In the upcoming semester, IBC will be focusing in taught which assume different backgrounds and “IBC ALSO OFFERS DIFFERENT even more on its first year student by transforming fluencies with Jewish texts and concepts, allowing FORMS OF PROGRAMMING THAT the Freshman Seminar into a new First-Year Cha- everyone to be taught at their appropriate level. burah Seminar Program. “The program is designed Additionally, IBC offers different forms of pro- INTEND TO HAVE SOMETHING to give the students an experience much like the gramming that intend to have something for ev- Israel Yeshiva environment, with smaller groups eryone. Students are thus able to create their own FOR EVERYONE. STUDENTS... and intimate personal learning,” said Rabbi Rofeh. personalized experiences and schedules in the CREATE THEIR OWN PERSONALIZED In this new program, all first year students will be way that best serves their individual needs. This invited to participate in the 9:00 AM IBC minyan, task of making sure that such a diverse program EXPERIENCES AND SCHEDULES IN where they will be able to daven with several of can truly serve its students needs is not an easy their Rabbeim. After davening, the students will one. The Office of Undergraduate Torah Studies, THE WAY THAT BEST SERVES THEIR break up in the same room into assigned chaburos under the caring leadership of Dean Rabbi Me- INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.” of 7 or 8 students, which will each be assigned an nachem Penner and Associate Dean Rabbi Yosef IBC staff member to learn with them. This out-of- Kalinsky, together with the rest of the IBC staff, the-classroom learning will create a more informal work tirelessly to keep molding the program so that it can accomplish this task. setting than what has been in the past, and will also Next fall, this desire of the staff of IBC to meet the needs of its students will be serve to create a centralized location for IBC learning to take place, which existed very apparent, as highlighted by several new initiatives. only to a limited extent in the past. The strong hope is that these chaburos will One major goal of the IBC administration is to enhance the cohesion among the SEE IBC, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 students and staff of the program. “IBC Rabbeim are there to do more than im- 2 Editorial Monday, April 18, 2016 - 10 Nissan 5776 The DITORIAL YECHIEL SCHWAB E Editor-in-Chief Stop Focusing on the Face; Focus on the Rest DANI WEISS Managing Editor By Avi Strauss difficult to assess the impact any one singular president had in steering the country differently on the macro-issues like the We humans like to draw our attention to the face. A quick economy and global events, which largely remain out of the AVI STRAUSS YADIN TEITZ Senior News Editor Senior Opinions Editor scan is all we need to generate a first impression, and given that president’s control. faces tend not to be hidden, we figure our cursory evaluation My point is—while focusing on a president and their poli- DAVID HILLEL FIELD is more than sufficient for sizing up the visage to which we’ve cies we very quickly—and very naively—lose sight of the myriad RUBINSTEIN Junior Opinions Editor turned our attention. Similarly, we use the face as a means to factors that go into making reality, reality. Politics happens ev- Junior News Editor describe a large part of the whole, even when it only represents ery year, not just the ones that are multiples of four. We elect DORON LEVINE a fraction of that whole. Sure, we recognize the face can’t exist 468/9 Congresspeople every two years to craft laws, and new Senior Features Editor without the rest of the body, but that doesn’t stop us from ze- presidents every four to institute them. The supreme court ADAM KRAMER ETAI roing in on its features and flaws and using it to explain much rules on big cases with huge political ramifications every time Senior Business Editor it's in session. CEO’s and large institutions innovate, create, de- SHUCHATOWITZ more than it realistically can. Junior Features Editor stroy and revamp huge sectors of our economy on a daily basis. ETAN NEIMAN Sure, I could be referring to the way we assess other people’s Junior Business Editor looks—but that would make this too straightforward. Rather, Wars start and wars end, completely out of the control of our BENJAMIN this is the lens through which I wish to evaluate much of our president, all the time. I don’t doubt the leader of the free world KOSLOWE political and institutional discourse, specifically as it relates to has some say—even an outsized say—over how to proceed, but Junior Features Editor to believe one man or woman will drastically affect our political finding new leaders. Senior Layout Editor The most obvious place to start is the office of the presiden- or economic fortunes on their own is just plain silly. cy. Contrary to what news outlets may have you believe, politics A few contemporary examples: TZVI LEVITIN does happen during the years in between presidential elections. -While stumping for his wife Hillary on the campaign trail, Sure, talk about Donald Trump’s latest whining—ehm, I’m sor- former president Bill Clinton has caught flak for his 1994 crime Layout Editors ry—“winning”—or Hillary Clinton’s most recent non-answer, or bill, with activists and fellow politicians blaming it, and by SHIRA FEEN extension Clinton himself, for high incarceration rates in the Ted Cruz’s responses to both, or Bernie Sanders lone inequality STEVEN KOHANE act, may consume huge percentages of 2016 headlines and air- black community. Yet, as recently as April 14, The Atlantic pub- time, but they can hardly be considered practical politics—the lished an article demonstrating how, when passed, it was a bi- Staff Writers kind of stuff that actually affects everyday people. partisan effort in both Houses of Congress and was supported Yet, at the same time, the public is just fascinated by any- by African American mayors across the country.
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